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“You see, the goal of the Christian life is not simply to get us into heaven, but to get heaven into us!”
― Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christ

“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. — William Penn”
― Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christ

“Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.”
― Peter Rollins, The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith